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  • August

    Middle East District Assistant District Counsel Traci Cunningham recently earned the E. Manning Seltzer award from Headquarters USACE for her efforts to make federal ethics rules more understandable to District employees through her advice column and humor.

    Award Winning Attorney Moonlights as Advice Columnist

    An attorney with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East District recently earned an award for her efforts to make federal ethics rules more understandable to District employees.

  • July

    U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Kimberly M. Colloton, commanding general and division engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Division, and Kuwait Army Maj. Gen. Adel Al Hafez, commander with the Kuwait Air Defense Forces, cut the ribbon at the new Patriot Fire Site, Site #7, Kuwait, July 5, 2021. The new Air Defense site will expand the Kuwait Ministry of Defense’s defense capabilities and enable assured protection to Kuwaiti citizens and allies.

    Middle East District, Kuwaitis Deliver the Program during COVID

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East District’s (TAM) Kuwait Program Management Office and Members of the Kuwaiti military held a ribbon cutting ceremony July 5th to celebrate completion of a Kuwaiti PATRIOT missile defense battery.

  • June

    TAM Program Manager Pete DeMattei just prior to his presentations on the Western Basing Network during the June 8-9 Industry Day Event in Saudi Arabia.

    Developing lasting industry-government partnerships through collaboration, networking

    USACE Middle East District sponsored a two-day Industry Day event in Saudi Arabia on June 8 and 9.
  • Transatlantic Middle East District Program Manager Kim Sanders with members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East District Qatar Resident Office visiting the site of one of her projects in the State of Qatar.

    Program Manager goes the extra 7,000 miles

    Headquartered in Winchester, Virginia, with projects spread throughout the Middle East, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) is farther from its projects than any other district in the Corps. So TAM program manager Kim Sanders is used to overcoming the tyranny of distance. However, when she recently had the chance to close that distance she jumped on the opportunity.

  • March

    Staff. Sgt. Buddy C. Reynold during his time in the Army, long before he was one of the guest speakers for this year's Black History Month Celebration.

    BHM speakers highlight value, importance of time

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) held a Black History Month celebration Feb. 26. The event was held virtually and featured two guest speakers: Staff Sgt. Buddy C. Reynolds, a 100-year-old World War II veteran and the Honorable Randall Johnson Jr., a District Judge in Richmond, Va.

  • May

    JOC is a contract vehicle that provides an alternative method to fulfill requirements for sustainment, restoration, and modernization projects at the installation, post, camp or station level. TAM has used JOC task orders for work in Kuwait for more than 20 years. (Photo credit Erickson Barnes)

    Old contracting tool leads to new successes in Kuwait

    The Transatlantic Middle East District has a long successful history with Job Order Contracts in Kuwait and just recently, April 30, awarded another Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Job Order Contracting (JOC) Single Award Task Order Contract (SATOC) for the District’s Kuwait program.

  • January

    Members of the Kuwaiti Military Engineering Projects Office and program managers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District pose for a photo outside the historic courthouse in Winchester, VA where the District headquarters is located.

    Building relationships and infrastructure facilities with Kuwait

    USACE’s Middle East District recently began a design review with the Kuwaiti Air Force on $140 million worth of construction on a Kuwait FMS case to support Kuwait’s newly purchased F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. The design program is the continuance of a survey of existing facilities at Al Jaber air base that identified new hangars, parking aprons, maintenance facilities and other needed infrastructure to operate and maintenance the arriving F-18 fighter jets.

  • October

    The Egyptian government has purchased F-16s through Peace Vector program during the past two decades. This photo, from the Middle East District's Mt. Weather Bulletin in October 1982, during the District's involvement with Peace Vector II.

    Middle East District involvement with Peace Vector Program

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, through its Middle East District, has been involved with the Peace Vector Program in Egypt since November 1980, supporting the United States’ sale of F-16 aircraft to the Egyptian Government.

  • April

    An acre of natural plant and animal habitat, created by Middle East District project manager David Worthington and his wife Julie Staggers ten years ago. Now thriving with countless species and varieties, they maintain the area for the wild.

    Life-long respect for nature leads to natural habitat in the middle of city

    More than 10 years ago, Dave Worthington’s corner of the world was about to be turned upside down when a developer had plans for the land that bordered the home he’d lived in with his wife Julie Staggers since 2003.

  • March

    Lindsay Warner, a paralegal specialist with the Transatlantic Middle East District, gives a presentation on identifying relevant documents in legal discovery at the USACE worldwide paraprofessionals training.

    District Office of Counsel develops unique expertise in contract law

    The amount and complexity of the Transatlantic Middle East District’s legal work gives its attorneys a unique opportunity to represent the Government on a number of intricate issues, an experience that they likely would not get in other USACE districts, or in the private sector, and one that allows them to become true subject matter experts on the issues they litigate.